ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,882, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Deep learning acceleration with mixed precision" was invented by Sen Ma (Bellevue, Wash.), Aliasger Tayeb Zaidy (Seattle) and Dustin Werran (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for deep learning acceleration with mixed precision may include matrix-vector (MV) components that each include vector-vector (VV) components that are each configured to generate a respective VV output based on an input precision mode, an output precision mode, and an accumulation of products. The accumulation of products may be calculated by adding products based on t...